CMC Microsystems provides a server for us which includes:

• a collection of CMC managed and supported software components used for CAD and EDA
• a distribution mechanism for delivery of the software components to CMC client subscribers
• CADconnect license key middleware
• local license server

Anyone using any of the STC components and infrastructure is required to have a current CMC subscription. Information about the CMC subscriptions can be found here.

For each faculty member, the subscription covers any of his/her supervised students, post-doctoral fellows and research assistants who have an account with CMC.

To see which design tools, kits, and methodologies are available from CMC, click here.

Ulya,

There is a very important change to CMC tool use for education that was recently made.  If you look at the subscription types on this page:

https://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Subscription.aspx

There are three new subscription types.  These replace the existing subscriptions.  When faculty renew their existing subscriptions with CMC, they will be forced to choose one of the three new subscriptions.

The "Professor Research" subscription which is $1000/year includes:

    Unlimited use of Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys and Xilinx for research use.
    Other tools capped at five concurrent use instances per tool from the subscriber’s research team. E.g., 5 concurrent use instances of ANSYS; or 2 concurrent use instances of COMSOL + 1 Tanner + 5 ANSYS are both valid use cases.
    Additional access to CAD for research use can be purchased - $1000 for five additional concurrent user instances per tool.
    *** DOES NOT INCLUDE EDUCATION USE OF ANY TOOLS <-- VERY IMPORTANT ***

Next is the "Institution/Department" license.  This costs $5000/yr + $1000 per professor to be included/year.  This includes unlimited use of ALL CAD tools + education use.  Like before, education use is permitted.  It is limited to the following: Unlimited education course use of ANSYS, Cadence, Keysight ADS, Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys. Licenses provided based on student enrollment per course. Unlimited number of courses within Subscription period.

Finally, you have the "Education" subscription which is $2000/yr for JUST education use.  This clearly doesn't make much sense.

It makes sense for the Department to buy into the Institution/Department license ($5000/year), then faculty can pay their $1000 to be included.   Faculty may save money depending on how many tools they were previously using.  $1000 for access to as many tools as they like sounds pretty good.  However, it's not clear who would pay the $5000.  There are other faculty in Lassonde who are CMC subscribers as well.    Would it make sense for Lassonde to pay the $5000 fee?   I want to avoid both Lassonde *and* the Department paying the $5000 fee simply because people don't talk.

Anyway, I'm pointing this out well in advance of the beginning of the school year.  I don't want there to be surprises when a faculty member states that they want to use the tools in their course, but they don't have the proper subscription.  It would be good to sign up for the Institution/Department license, then, as faculty subscriptions expire, they pay their $1000 and get moved to the new license.

Jason.

• The CMC STC is available as /CMC on navy.eecs.yorku.ca (a Linux system), and from other tech-supported Departmental Linux systems as required.
• If you plan to use tools from CMC, licensing will either occur through one of two mechanisms, depending on the tool and from where you are accessing it:
  • CADactivate:
    • From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system,
    • from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/local/bin/cadactivate (In both cases, you must wait 24 hours for approval)
  • CADpass v3.0:
    • From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system,
    • from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/local/bin/cadpass

After you have been granted access to the tools that you require, please consult the CMC Tool Matrix for software that is available in our local Linux STC.

NOTE: Before you can use any tools from the STC, you will need to add one line to the end of your .cshrc file:

[-r /CMC/local/share/licenses ] && source /CMC/local/share/licenses

You will also need to source additional files as reported by the CMC tool matrix above.

• For information on using design tools for teaching, please refer to the following page on CMC community: http://www.cmc.ca/WhatWeOffer/Design/Tools/CADactivate/CADactivateInstructions/courseinstructions.aspx
• Students can CADactivate from a Linux system with /CMC here: /CMC/scripts/CADactivate/cadactivate.sh
• Students can CADactivate from a Windows system here: http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Design/Cadactivate.aspx

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